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      lake
      noun
      A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
      A large amount of liquid.
      In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
      In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
      A placename:
      A large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5983).
      A number of places in the United States:
      A unisex given name.
      A surname.
      A place in England:
      A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
      A town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.
      A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
      A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
      A former town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954.
      A number of townships, listed under Lake Township.
      An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
      An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
      An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
      An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
      An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan.
      An unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
      An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
      An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
      (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
      (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
      (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
      (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
      (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
      verb
      To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.
      To make lake-red.
      (dialectal, Northern, UK) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
      (obsolete) To present an offering.
      Roots
      lacuslake- · Latin · basin, pool
      Words related to lake
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